C. 4.44.2 e 8: rescissione per lesione enorme o restitutio in integrum propter aetatem?

The essay studies the rescripts of Diocletian (C. 4.44.2 of 285 AD and C. 4.44.8 of 293 AD), which formed the basis for the doctrine of laesio enormis in the Middle Ages, and analyses the other Diocletian constitutions reported in the title de rescindenda venditione of the Justinian Code; it comes to the conclusion that this emperor may have exceptionally authorized a restitutio in integrum propter aetatem in a case where the a minor was sui iuris and for this reason the emperor would have granted the buyer the right to keep the contract alive by paying the price difference.